Health authorities and organizations say they lack funds to respond to a deadly Ebola outbreak in southern Congo.

The World Health Organization says an Ebola outbreak in southern Congo is starting to be contained. No new cases have been ...

Security forces thwarted a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday in which armed men targeted the homes of top officials and briefly occupied the office of the presidency in the ...

Mbanza Kongo — The National Police in Zaire province on Friday detained six citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accused of poaching in the national territory. The arrest took place in ...

Muanda International Oil Co., a subsidiary of Perenco, has reached an agreement with the government of Congo (former Zaire) extending by 20 years the license covering the Offshore DR Congo Block, ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 15-- Heritage Oil Corp., Calgary, has signed a production-sharing agreement (PSA) with Congo (former Zaire) for a 39.6% working interest in the 6,000 sq km Blocks I and II in the Albert ...

In the 40 years since the Democratic Republic of Congo - formerly Zaire - became independent, the vast central African state has seldom known stability. Soldiers have often been behind the violence - ...

Images captured by Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer John Wessel's show the ruins of one of Africa's most famous dictators – President Mobutu Sese Seko. Labelled "Versailles of the Jungle" by ...

A nun holds Congo's national flag as people wait for Pope Francis' celebration of Mass at Ndolo airport in Kinshasa, Congo, Feb. 1, 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) More than one million Congolese sang, ...

The Belgian colonizers transformed Congo into a slave-state for rubber and ivory. The so-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) ...